Re: Emacs in a Corporate Environment

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2023-04-15, at 13:16, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 10:21:08 +0200
>>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>> From:  <tomas@tuxteam.de>
>>> 
>>> > Seriously: you should talk to your CISO, if you have one.  You _think_
>>> > you control everything on your "civilised" OS, but that's an illusion.
>>> > Unless you build your machines yourself, from the ground up, and also
>>> > code all the software that runs on it.
>>> 
>>> You just moved the goalposts. We had it about paging files (which in
>>> my case would be a partition, but I disgress). I control that. I don't
>>> control the IME, alas.
>>
>> No, the original issue was about whether some stuff Emacs has in
>> memory could end up on your local disk somewhere.  Pagefiles are just
>> one such mechanism, but it isn't the only one.
>
> I think you're all missing the most obvious snafu (which has actually
> gotten me in trouble with our security folks): auto-save files.

Good point!  Is there a way to disable them wholesale on remote machines
(when using TRAMP)?

TIA,

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Marcin Borkowski
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